Posted on 10/28/2013 1:38:42 PM PDT by lulu16
What happens when major portions of the United States loses power? How will people cope? How will people die?
From this forum, I heard of this docudrama and set the DVR. I only made it 40 minutes in until I started hiding my head under the couch pillows and at the one hour mark, I fled the room where my husband was watching. He put it on hold for tonight, because he wants to know what happens. I will hear it second hand from him.
At first, from the timeline, 2006, I thought this was previously aired six years ago. But then they should excerpts of Obama calling for calm. It was clever how they made it cinema verite like the Blair Witch Project, and a compilation like they have done for their programs on the timeline of 9/11 from different vantage points.
I have read many excellent books on apocalyptic scenarios,e.g. One Minute After, Lights Out, and do enjoy the genre. But his show was too much for me. That idiot slicing into the can of peaches with a huge carving knife had me skidding away. Why is it always the canned peaches? Another novel I read, the girl was eating a can of peaches at a swapmeet,after when the government helicopters came in to herd everyone into a valley to massacre them. The scene with the long-haired boyfriend meeting in secret to give away food to the neighbors was so infuriating. I know who he voted for.
So I have scoured the web to see if anyone was at the internet water-cooler discussing this grid-down dramatization. I waited until the original posters came back to offer a wrap-up. If, I over-looked their post, I apologize.
Yes, I watched. I thought it was interesting but it has too many plots and they all move at a snail’s pace. Ironically, I think the situation would be far worse than the way they are portraying it. The scenes with Obama were hurl-tastic.
Even people in my neighborhood of homeowners, still believe Obama wants what is best for us. And when all that is left of the arugula is a few tattered leaves, they’ll console themselves that,
“He didn’t know.”
“Example #1: the rich guy who has $17 per lb. swordfish in his freezer doesn’t own a can opener.”
Yes! I too found that to be ridiculous. They might have been rich yuppie snobs, but no can opener? Really?
I didn’t hear those stories ( I watched a program on the Weather Channel.) Please share, we need examples to fortify our better angels.
Started watching but when they included mock press briefing from obama I changed the channel. Not interested in show now
Also, didn’t you find it odd that the prepper dad put his 12 year old kid on “patrol duty” at night, in the dark after the family was threatened by a neighbor? I found that to be absolutely ridiculous. No prepper parent with any sense would have done that.
Every time I read that you lost your firearms, I feel so sad.
No that was good. Let him own this disaster. I liked that he was associated with the grid going down. Great legacy for him. But I admit, it was jarring to see him. I usually have a second sense about when he is about to show up on tv, and I turn my head and plug my ears and starting singing, la, la , la, la...
bookmark - thx
There was another story during Sandy of some young, able-bodied guy who was arrested for looting. He said he was entitled to it and he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong!
LOL! Shhhh, I secretly reveled.
It’s going to be a movie too. The first 200 pages were slow, but it did pick up. A defensible neighborhood with surplus arable land sure came in handy. And an RV for your friend’s family with skills, and a well, and a old gunny sergeant who could train others.
He owns a can opener, it’s electric.
We all lost our firearms.
Good thing too.
They scare the cats.
Remember?
Modest preparations seem more prudent than grand designs, it seems. I think the power of neighborhood will be the best asset so I am prepping those relationships. Building a bunker seems extreme and wasteful.
Awesome. It would make a great movie. I’m enjoying the book very much. I just wish I could make more time to read it.
Plenty of the same kind of thing happened in Katrina. People with boats came from all around un-flooded parts of LA to rescue stranded people.
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